Teen gets instant message from Mother Nature
By Eric Convey
Saturday, June 5, 2004
Calvin Legge's Internet conversation this week got about as hot as they come.
The 17-year-old was instant messaging with a friend Wednesday when a lightning bolt struck his family's Middleboro home.
"I only heard half of the boom,'' he said yesterday. "I saw this blue screen flash on the computer and this seering hot pain went through my hands . . . when I realized where I was, I was about 10 feet from the computer.
"My whole body felt really heavy and really hot,'' he said.
Mom Sheree Legge was lying on a living room couch reading when she saw the flash and heard the crack of thunder. When she looked up, she said, Calvin was standing "like Frankenstein - with his arms straight out.''
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i've heard of people getting zapped in the ear while on the phone and getting nailed while in the shower but through the keyboard - you'd have thought his surge protector would've cracked first - if he had one...
there's this guy south of here who got hit while out in his yard and lost his eye sight... a couple of years later he gets hit again and his sight returned...
got any lightning stories???